Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), master of the hard-guy school of crime fiction, openly sneered (in the Saturday Review of Literature) at those who prefer the too-too refined type of whodunit ("That charming Mrs. Jones-whoever would have thought she would cut off her husband's head with a meat saw? And such a handsome...
...Fiction & Fact. Three years later, Richard asked for a divorce to marry Nancy. Mrs. Randolph prescribed for him a fatal dose of tartar emetic instead, and Nancy was kept at her menial work. She was a lot better off the day the self-widowed Mrs. Randolph tired of torturing her and chased her out of the house to earn her own living. Nancy did better than that: she went North, met courtly, wealthy old Gouverneur Morris, and married him-fictionally and in fact...
...Bizarre Sisters offers up popular fiction's oldest standby: the lowly Cinderella who suffers endlessly at the hands of cruel relatives until in the last pages her pumpkin changes to a coach and the prince proposes. The Authors Walz play it for plot, and their plot ripples its muscles admirably. Yet to be convinced that the Randolphs really lived, readers will need more than a note that "except for one supernumerary, no character in this book is imaginary." All blacks and whites, Sisters moves along like a lively shadow play in which no grey shadings ever intrude to slow...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler predicted that the present literary scene "might fairly be labeled by critics in the future, the golden age of garbage." Anyway, said Pegler, who used to be a good reporter himself, and careful of his facts, "fiction is a cowardly medium. The fictioneer needn't defend his position or accept the responsibility for the harm he does...
...people are too obviously puppets; as a thriller it makes too many demands on credulity. But as a vehicle for Charles Williams' gentle the ology, it is both sophisticated and per suasive. The idea of God as love has had few abler champions in or out of fiction...